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[-] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

It makes sense why they did it, but their messed up versioning was the cause to begin with. You should always assume Devs will cut corners in inappropriate ways.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago

They'll cut corners the more the shittier APIs and ABIs you provide

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The API is fine. It returns the internal version number (which is 4.0 for Windows 95), not a string. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns-winnt-osversioninfoexa. There's no built-in API that returns "Windows 95" as a string.

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